I don't think "Fa" as the musical note is an Americanism. I've heard it in other languages as well.

There's not an option for only 1 being the right answer, neither is there one for only 3 being correct, and as you say, it doesn't make sense for "fan" as a contraction of fanatic to be the right answer either, so I'm going with "none of the above"

There's not an option for only 1 being the right answer, neither is there one for only 3 being correct

Yes there is, for both of them. Each option is an individual answer. If you want to say that just the first option is correct, simply say "the first option is correct". If you want a combination of the individual answers, you're going to have to choose from the combinations listed. If the correct answer is a combo of the individual answers, then one of the combos I provide will be correct. All this, of course, is assuming I don't make a mistake.

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Didn't think you could, but you can let us know after the answer is revealed.

I almost forgot about this. "Azedo" is not used in any expression regarding people, as far as I know. "Podre" is used in "podre de rico" ("filthy rich"), but that's it, AFAIK.

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The correct answer was "Fan (as in someone who likes something)".The word for "fa" (also called "F") is "fá", and the word for "fan" is "ventoinha".

Next word: Rápido

Meaning in English:

Quick (male)

Quick (female)

Quickly (male)

Quickly (female)

The first and second options

The third and fourth options

The first and third options

The second and fourth options

The first, second, third and fourth options

None of the above

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Second trap you've fallen for, nogodsforme. "Rápido", in Portuguese, means "quick (male)". "Quickly" is "rapidamente".The suffix "-mente" is the Portuguese equivalent of the suffix "-ly". Also, words with the suffix "-mente" never have acute accents.

Next word: Cartão

Meaning in English:

Card

Cardboard

Carton

Cart

The first and second options

The third and fourth options

The first, second and third options

The first, second, third and fourth options

None of the above

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The correct answer was "The first and second options"."Cartão" is used for both cards (in which case we say "Um cartão"[1], or "O cartão"[2]) and cardboard (simply "Cartão", without any articles).Don't feel bad, nogodsforme. I know the English, Portuguese and Spanish languages well enough to be able to trick you.

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The correct answer was "Of the". "Do" is a contraction of "de" and "o", where "de" means "of" and "o" means "the (male)". I omitted the male/female answers for the sake of brevity, but I'll try to include them when possible from now on.

Next word: Ganga

Meaning in English:

Ganja

Jeans

Genes

Denim

Gangue

The second and third options

The fourth and fifth options

None of the above

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Just trying to see if I can get some guesses before moving on to the next word.

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The correct answer was "The fourth and fifth options".Ganga is mostly used for "denim", but it can also be used for gangue. There is no direct translation for the word "jeans". We call them "calças de ganga" (literally: denim pants).

Bonus round: What gender is "ganga"?

Male

Female

Genderless

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All of these words mean straw in different parts of the Americas. I've never seen the word pitillo used to describe a cigarette, but they are both narrow things that one sucks on. So is canita, like sugar cane.

I'm pretty sure the word in Spain is paja.

But things that came into existence after the colonization of the Americas usually share some sort of commercial name or scientific name, like televisor or astronaut.

Not really sure how each of these words developed so independently. Maybe each society had a name for something that they used in the way a straw was used, and when plastic straws were invented and distributed, each region stuck with the name that they had used earlier.

The Polish word for a pipe (as in smoking a pipe) is fajka...and even though they are pronounced very differently (fai-ka vs pa-ha), they appear to me to have some etymological similarity as p's and f's are among those letters which tend to mutate into each other.